The day before my 18th birthday, a monumental occasion. I decided to spend my free time doing as many childish things as I could-between chores, lectures and day dreaming I didn't have much time, but I took advantage of what little time I seized, so let's begin!
I decided to start it off with a hot cup of homemade hot chocolate (even though it was 85 degrees outside and I was wearing a hoodie) It was delicious! For my first time making it homemade I thought it was pretty drinkable!
But it did stir up my mischievous side, all of that chocolate and sugar....
That's me thinking up what I wanted to do that day, what havoc I could muster up in a short period of time. And so I started, I had a few hours until my bedtime-which I obviously hid until someone told me to go to bed.
All the things I thought to do before I was inevitably thrust into adulthood.
1.) Build a sand village (I suck at castles apparently)
My original thought for this activity was "sand castle" obviously, much to my dismay I discovered that I do not have much of a talent for construction-that is not a career option for me......but I make an excellent building destroyer!
So that was a lot of work quickly destroyed. It was worth it though, I got sand all over my hands and in my hair-that was an accident, I just forgot I had sand on my hands after I finished building one of the houses, I was pretty frustrated with my material so my natural response to stress is to run my hands through my hair and make it spiked up all over the place.
2.) Pick a bunch of weeds and pretend that they are flowers.
When I was little I would pick things from the field next to our house and bring them to my house and put them in vases on the table, I would always get confused when my "flowers" were gone the next morning.
3.) Do A Cartwheel
I did do several cartwheels, I was on the gravel driveway and I cut my hand....and ended up extremely dizzy and sat down for a few minutes-which I'm sure looked silly.
4.) Climb a tree
This activity made me ashamed to call myself a child. I couldn't climb a tree for the life of me! I don't know where my talent went, but I don't have it in me any longer
I just looked pathetic when I tried....
I just gave up after that, just like any kid would. But as the sun was setting on my last day of being 17, and I was walking back to the house I started thinking about everything that had happened to me in the past year, the good, the bad and the painful and I realized that it all had to happen to get me to this exact moment, the moment that I decided that I was ready to be an adult, to leave pig tails and tattle telling behind me. I got to the back door, looked over my should at the sun going down over the river, I smiled and walked inside, closing the door firmly behind me.
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